Pros
I worked two wedding seasons, May - October. Or rather, I worked one season and started a second season before deciding to quit a month into it. The venue is beautiful and has a good reputation. Generally guests are pleasant and you get to witness some really wonderful moments. Moments like these, a touching speech or first dance, make the job worth it. The camaraderie with other employees is pretty good. People aregenerally friendly and fun to be around. Some managers/supervisors are more fun to work with than others, but in there were very few people that I wouldn't want to work with. I noticed some people were able to move up and into better positions so it seems like there's a possibility of upward mobility. Breaks fluctuate. You may have some longer relaxed breaks during an "easier" event or close to none if it happens to be a hectic event and/or staffing is low.
Cons
My problem with Abernethy comes down to transparency. I didn't mind the seasonality of the job (working almost no hours between November and May) because I was prepared for that. But I applied for a position that I never got to do. That's right. I was hired on and told to do a different, more entry-level position to gain experience before training for the position I had applied for and *I thought* had been hired to do. I didn't have a problem with this. But after two training sessions I was pulled off the schedule and never trained again for that position. I continued to work in the position I had not applied to do. I came back for the next season, with the understanding that I would get an opportunity to train for my desired position again. But instead I noticed other, newer people being trained for it. I gave it a couple weeks and asked if there was a possibility that I would get a chance to train again for the position I wanted. I was told that no, they had enough people to do it. This is not cool. At all. If they thought I wasn't a good fit, they should have told me instead of stringing me along. There is definitely some favoritism at play here and a lack of communication and transparency between staff and management.